Pot of gold for glioma therapy

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 255-256

  Piomelli, Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID RECEPTOR; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR AGONIST; CERAMIDE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

APOPTOSIS; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL DEATH; DRUG RESEARCH; GLIOMA; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CANNABINOIDS; GLIOMA; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, CANNABINOID; RECEPTORS, DRUG;

RODENTIA;

EID: 0034064189     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/73088     Document Type: Short Survey

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